Sherman Dolan
Male
Age: 75
Race: German (White)
Title: Blacksmith/Painter
Sherman Dolan was alive during the Great Depression. He was born in Vervan, Germany. He was 6 years old when he arrived in America. His family was small, only 3 people including him. He was very young and naive. He was also scared and timid. He was scared of cattle, and indians. Whne he was fishing one day with his father a herd of cattle was passing through, He was so scared that he hid in a tree until they passed. Being from Germany, he had never seen a Native-American before. So he was very startled when he saw them for the very fist time. He said, " The Indians came through, the savage look of them and the way they dressed scared me." As he got older he followed his father's line of work, being a Blacksmith. In 1910 however, he had moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to pursue a carrer in painting. He had lived through a depression early before the great one. He had said that grasshoopers had caused it because when they jumped on the train tracks, the train would run through them. But Sherman said that they were so thick, and there were so many of them, that the trains could not pass through that thickening conditions. As a resulkt of that, Sherman and the rest of his family didnt have a lot of clothes. He said that he was barefoot most of the time and that food was scarce. I thought this interview was ok. There wasnt a lot of detail but Sherman did share some emotion and some raw details of being in a depression
Sherman Dolan
Male
Age: 75
Race: German (White)
Title: Blacksmith/Painter
Sherman Dolan was alive during the Great Depression. He was born in Vervan, Germany. He was 6 years old when he arrived in America. His family was small, only 3 people including him. He was very young and naive. He was also scared and timid. He was scared of cattle, and indians. Whne he was fishing one day with his father a herd of cattle was passing through, He was so scared that he hid in a tree until they passed. Being from Germany, he had never seen a Native-American before. So he was very startled when he saw them for the very fist time. He said, " The Indians came through, the savage look of them and the way they dressed scared me." As he got older he followed his father's line of work, being a Blacksmith. In 1910 however, he had moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to pursue a carrer in painting. He had lived through a depression early before the great one. He had said that grasshoopers had caused it because when they jumped on the train tracks, the train would run through them. But Sherman said that they were so thick, and there were so many of them, that the trains could not pass through that thickening conditions. As a resulkt of that, Sherman and the rest of his family didnt have a lot of clothes. He said that he was barefoot most of the time and that food was scarce. I thought this interview was ok. There wasnt a lot of detail but Sherman did share some emotion and some raw details of being in a depression